How, then, shall I gain your friendship for my country?
You are dangerous to have for an enemy.

Are you too high-priced to have for a friend--for a friend to our Union--a friend of the principle of democracy?
Come now, you enjoy large questions.

Tell me, what does this council mean regarding Oregon?
Is it true that England plans now to concentrate all her traders, all her troops, and force them west up the Saskatchewan and into Oregon this coming season?
Come, now, Madam, is it to be war ?" Her curved lips broke into a smile that showed again her small white teeth.
"Were you, then, married ?" she said.
I only went on, impatient.

"Any moment may mean everything to us.

I should not ask these questions if I did not know that you were close to Mr.Calhoun." She looked me square in the eye and nodded her head slowly.